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Re: Microsoft may make budget-balancing game for US government

The only difference between a software engineer hired by Microsoft, for example, and a software engineer self-employed working on OpenSource is that the latter is looking to learn a method and then become creative, while the latter is becoming creative and then looking for a method.

The Opensource, CopyLeft, and other "amateur" software communities are actually one of the most valuable resource we have.

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Re: Microsoft may make budget-balancing game for US government

My opinion on the whole budget game thing--

Won't do much good, because a game, unlike politics, requires rules and fairness.

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Re: Microsoft may make budget-balancing game for US government

Originally Posted by Hoplite

Then I submit you arent looking far enough

While I believe they are creative people in the sphere of designing fictional fantasies, they are typically awful at depicting real-world scenarios, partially because gamers are reluctant to want to incorporate realism and instead favor of pseudo-realism...realism that molds well to their nihilism, but not to which responds accurately to human history or technological history. Part of the problem is perceived entertainment value versus accuracy. To exaggerate a great deal more, Idiocracy versus a historical seminar on warfare in the 19th century.

Back to the original subject, however, it provides some possibilities, perhaps to some limited extent to budget-balancing, but I withhold faith that the social sciences are truly capable of puncturing immensely complicated social and public policy problems.

Re: Microsoft may make budget-balancing game for US government

A fictional game with a fictional possibility.

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